"Beautiful souls" is a wonderful book, it is cognitively stimulating and emotionally disturbing. It contains 4 true stories about  the courage and conscious of ordinary people in extraordinary times. Just 1 story, and it stirs me. The story about the police captain who falsified papers so that Jews can stay in Swiss. It is not just a recount of what happens but also explanations of why it happens, with modern explanations why people do what they did. I remembered LP and I were talking about neutral good/evil. We weighed our options before committing. I found that this weighing of options, would properly mean I would have done the opposite, if I was in his shoes. Sending the Jews back to Austria. I had a break before reading the whole chapter, (waiting for my wife to finish her facial) and I thought to myself, if everyone is ......